A title page question

[StRogue]

Gang,

I have a question concerning title pages. Should they include this:

WGAw registered

For contests I read it's a good idea, no one thinks the less. What about when a producer, agent, someone in the biz wants to read your script, should the title page include that tag? Or is it better to just have your contact info, title, written by and name on the sheet? I do understand having the registered number from WGA is not necessary.

Charli

[Strange Mind]

yep. include it. unless it's not registered with the wgaw, in which case, you want to register it first and THEN include it.

i'm not sure what the protocol is though, if you register it with some other entity, like the national creative registrar or the us copyright office. i've heard you just say "registered material", and another person (credited writer) said just put wgaw registered, anyway. perhaps someone can shed some light on this particular nuance.

of course if it's wga registered, you don't have to bother with that particular issue. oh yeah, and registration numbers definitely not necessary.

[RatWriter]

I have a hard time believing anybody cares one way or another.

[Miss Cleo]

Hullo, mahn! Miss Cleo here is looking at the cards before here, ahn she sees the proper way of presenting the title page is that of not showing registration. The Tower card shows me that your first inclination is to put as much information as mortally possible on the title page, but the Hanged Man tells me that production companies and agencies assumes any intelligent writer would have registered the script and no need to say so on the script. Ultimately, as the Fool card tells, registration number will only be important to a writer when the script is sold or when there is a legal process involved.

So do you have a lover you don't trust? Is somebody keeping secrets from you? Do you want to know if you will fail or succeed as a writer? Then ask Miss Cleo, and I shall read the cards for you.

[meramera]

Miss Cleo,

Did you know I was going to write this? Did Deon Warwick and the psychic friends know they were going to go out of business?

What is my kitty's name?

[Miss Cleo]

Hullo, Mera! Your destiny is blurry ahn somthing hazes your path. But I see a mahn, a mahn by the name of Chuck or Charles Gordon who plans to take something away from you. Have you seen the movie "Money Talks?" Something about you and that movie, maybe the writers. It's a little blurry. But are you fixing something that has to do with the writers of "Money Talks?"

Take comfort in the night, because Daybreak holds secrets from you.

[Strange Mind]

i read you used to be a dj in chicago. is that true?

who's cooler? james van praagh or silvia browne?

[funnyfarmer]

Mera,
I'm not even psychic and I can answer those questions. Yes, we knew you'd have to respond, Mere, and yes, they probably knew the glory days were over, and his name is Bowie because it is such a cool name and I remembered. :)
Okay, pay up, sweetie, I'm now a psychic.

[meramera]

Houdini

[funnyfarmer]

Mera,
Houdini is your cat that climbed into the fireplace? I thought he was named after David Bowie? Or was that one of the chats I slept through? Where did I get Bowie then? I'm getting my clients mixed up. Oh, no, I guess I can't follow my dream to be a psychic. Screwed up first try. :)

I actually went to a psychic once. She told me I'd written something that would change the world and make me millions of dollars, and didn't even know I was a writer. I'm still waiting... It's possible she had the same gift as I do. :)